So what kind of sense does it make to take a person’s driver’s license — hampering their ability to get to work or use a ...

The rising college senior plans to go to law school, and he said he will have to borrow to get there. “It’s worse than debtor’s prison,” said Smita Nadia Hussain, who owes $80,000 on her ...

Prisoners earnings can vary across the UK, across different prisons and even within them. As Matty worked in a Recycling ...

The rising college senior plans to go to law school, and he said he will have to borrow to get there. “It’s worse than debtor’s prison,” said Smita Nadia Hussain, who owes $80,000 on her ...

Whatever happened to York Castle? DAVID WILSON lifts the lid on the sad tale. MY Canadian friend Zoe had visited Warwick, Lincoln and Edinburgh, and on her way back down south she ...

Paying their debt to society The concept of a debtors’ prison can be understood through the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as a punishment for a ...

First of all, no, you can’t go to jail for credit card debt. Debtors prison hasn’t been a thing since the 1800s.

When you have drugs in prisons what you get inevitably is debt. When prisoners get into debt then some of those debts are ...

Even without debtors' prisons to contend with, getting credit card debt under control can still be overwhelming. Here are a few methods you can use to help alleviate some of that anxiety.

A Missouri city will pay nearly $3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it and six other St. Louis suburbs of violating the constitutional rights of residents by jailing them and forcing them to ...

In the Lyric Feature on Sunday 29th February, Patricia Baker goes in search of the hidden history of a place behind a locked door in Dublin ...

On Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2024, a St. Louis-based public interest law firm announced that the city of Florissant, Mo., will pay nearly $3 million to settle a so-called debtor's prison lawsuit that ...